I have presented over 70 talks at conferences, research seminars and public lectures, including outreach talks for the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cardiff University’s Innovation Network, Cardiff BookTalk and the Historical Association, as well as writing for The Conversation.

I would welcome enquiries from potential research students interested in studying history of the book and print culture, nineteenth-century fiction, the gothic and digital humanities; and from public groups or media outlets interested in my research and scholarship.

After completing my undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Durham, I came to Cardiff in 1995 to read an MA in English Literature, focusing on nineteenth-century literature and its engagement with print culture. My postgraduate studies concluded in 2001, with a PhD entitled ‘Jane Austen and the Production of Fiction, 1785–1817’.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), and member of a number of academic societies, and was elected as the Vice-President of the British Association for Romantic Studies in July 2015. I also sit on a number of editorial boards for journals and scholarly initiatives, as well as regularly peer reviewing submissions to various academic publications. I am co-organiser of Cardiff Romanticism and Romanticism Seminar, and sit on the Editorial Board of Cardiff University Press.

I teach undergraduate modules on the gothic and the nineteenth century, and postgraduate courses on Romanticism, book history and digital humanities. I have supervised MA dissertations on Jane Austen, the gothic and sensation fiction, and am currently supervising doctoral projects on Victorian fiction, literature and science, and the nineteenth-century book trade. As of August 2018, I am Director of Studies for the undergraduate programmes in English Literature and Creative Writing.

I have written books and essays on Jane Austen, the gothic, print culture and contemporary fiction. In 2009, I became one of the General Editors of The New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, which is to be published in 39 volumes: the first wave of volumes appeared from 2013.

Current and forthcoming research includes:

An invited book chapter on Jane Austen and digital culture.

An invited book chapter on the penny dreadful.

A monograph on gothic narrative and immersive play.

A co-authored reference book, The Palgrave History of Gothic Publishing: The Business of Gothic Fiction, 1764–1835.

I was also co-organiser of WISE: What Is Scholarly Editing?, funded by the AHRC's Collaborative Research Skills Development scheme. This comprised a series of workshops to be held in Cardiff, Durham and London between 2014 and 2015, in order to train doctoral students and Early Career Researchers in the theory and practice of editing. Since December 2015, I have been leading the development of a Digital Cultures Network at Cardiff University.

As well as academic research, since 2013, I have have been working as the academic lead in Hyde, an AHRC-funded knowledge-transfer project which adapts Stevenson's classic novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, into a pervasive media game driven by players’ bio-data.